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JaneUK
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February 15, 2011
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/CFIDE/componentutils/cfcexplorer.cfc - now you see it, now you don't.

  • February 15, 2011
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I'm trying to use this amazingly useful facility, by putting the url of my CFC into my browser and watching it redirect to a page describing the CFC's contents. Usually, I get asked to enter my RDS password, do so, and get the documentation.
"Sometimes", I get "File not found: /CFIDE/componentutils/cfcexplorer.cfc"
No, I can't define "sometimes" beyond "when I least want it to do this"

This is a development server, not set up by me, and for some reason I don't understand /CFIDE is mapped to somewhere odd (C:\webspace\applications\betaApp01\www\CFIDE, which is in the depths of another app.)

The files really are there as far as I can see, and it usually works. Only, sometimes, it doesn't

Any ideas what I need to look for that might produce this "sometimes"?

In case it matters:

Server Details
Server ProductColdFusion
Version9,0,0,251028 
EditionEnterprise 
Operating SystemWindows Server 2008 
OS Version6.1 
Adobe Driver Version4.0 (Build 0005

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    recursivecodes
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    February 15, 2011

    Are you "sometimes" using a different domain?  IE:

    http://localhost/my/path/to.cfc

    vs:

    http://somedomain/my/path/to.cfc

    Not sure why your setup uses a mapping for CFIDE vs a virtual directory.  I'd suggest always using a virtual directory at the web server level (IE: apache or IIS).

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    JaneUKAuthor
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    February 15, 2011

    That's a very good suggestion, but no, I'm not using a different domain. I've got one url to my CFC folder saved, and I use it every time.

    Indirectly, though, that leads me to another interesting symptom. "I could try out that localhost idea by remoting onto the server", I thought to myself. So I did, and found myself looking at the CFadmin session that I'd been successfully running at the same time as the cfcexplorer session on my own PC was failing.

    http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

    works, every time (touching wood, and with fingers crossed), and that's the same CFIDE (or should be)

    Using a mapping for CFIDE is the default way CF is set up, the last few times I've installed it. I'd expect it to point at a slightly more normal place, though, like C:\inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE (which exists)

    I'm beginning to wonder if there's Something Odd (tm) down at the IIS level, and "sometimes" means "when someone else has been doing things to it".

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